One view of President Granger and his administration

Sep 28, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
Minister Noel Holder’s unbelievably frank admission of ignorance made on Safe TV2 Headline News , September 26, may have shocked many “…so they have now apparently secured some $30B bond, which GuySuCo management has not seen, which the Minister of Agriculture has not seen, and frankly speaking don’t really want to see.”
Our nation expends enormous amounts of money and energy to elect an Executive President and his/her administration. In 2015 we elected H.E David Granger to serve in this executive capacity. His first act was to establish a ‘Minister of the Presidency’ to handle all the executive parts of his job.
H.E Granger undertook no sector of our economy, social aspect of life or other area as his personal responsibility. He created new Vice-presidents, new Ministries, new Ministers within old ministries, new departments and chose to chair cabinet without holding any portfolio.
H.E Granger has effectively assigned himself the role of ‘Ceremonial President”. He has tea with the Queen of England, attends Heads of anything conferences and of late is available to cut ribbons locally. H.E also held his third annual press conference.
Editor, the old adage of ‘actions have consequences’ is being borne out. Three years plus into this maladministration, Ministers ignorant of critical matters under their portfolio is the new norm.
This type of bureaucracy comes with a hefty price tag. Over $60 billion in new revenue collected by the GRA per annum and yet we cannot pay our teachers a much deserved increase in salary or our hard working GUYSUCO employees their lawful severance.
President Granger’s only meaningful actions have been his unilateral appointing a Chair for GECOM; his signing of the Cybercrime Bill of 2018 with clause 18.1 intact into law; his selective, costly and mostly unnecessary Commission of Inquiries; his refusal to hold a necessary COI into the mysterious operation that led to the death of GDF officer Pyle as he chased PPP MP Ramson’s terrified wife through the streets of Georgetown and his policy suggestion that the ‘Carter formula’ has outlived its usefulness and calling it a “recipe for disaster”.
All of these actions point to a care for retention of political power.
I must ask where is the vision to lead our country forward? Where are the policy documents, statements, speeches, indications? When asked about plans for GUYSUCO, Minister Holder referred to a State paper presented in Parliament.
This paper is long on rhetoric and bereft of detail. Sadly it is a characteristic of all APNU+AFC ministries and departments.
This is no way to run a country. I would suggest the H.E Granger would be more suited to head an NGO, where a ceremonial president is appreciated and often most effective. The Granger Bus, Boat and Bicycle Foundation perhaps?
For I would much rather ‘Quo Vadis’ apply to comrade Granger than to our dear land of Guyana.
Respectfully
Robin Singh

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